{"id":94377,"date":"2026-09-24T13:38:39","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T11:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/?p=94377"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:40:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T11:40:47","slug":"paris-prepares-to-receive-pope-leo-xiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2026\/09\/24\/paris-prepares-to-receive-pope-leo-xiv\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris Prepares to Receive Pope Leo XIV"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Maryana Garcia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>About 1 million people are expected to attend events across Paris this weekend during Pope Leo XIV's visit to the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Archbishop Laurent Ulrich has spoken of his enthusiasm to welcome the pontiff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ARCHBISHOP LAURENT ULRICH<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Diocese of Paris<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I want to reiterate my joy at this trip, for our diocese and for each of us, and my invitation that we may, together, participate in welcoming the Holy Father.&nbsp;<\/em><em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the Stade de France, over 80,000 young people, both Catholic and non-Catholic, will join Pope Leo's prayer vigil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MONS. \u00c9TIENNE GUILLET<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Bishop of the Diocese of Saint-Denis<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>So, we are hoping for a word of encouragement from the Pope, a message that sends young people out on this mission to share the peace and joy founded on faith in Jesus Christ.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>There will be Catholic schools as well as public schools present. I also know that many young people wanted to invite friends who are not baptized. They wanted to invite Jewish friends, Muslim friends, Sikh friends, Buddhist friends, and Hindu friends, because they live together all year round and wanted to share this important moment with them.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Archdiocese of Paris has registered 600,000 attendees for the Mass Pope Leo will celebrate on Saturday at Place de Concorde, on Champs-Elysees. An ensemble choir of 1000 singers from across the country will help lead the music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>FR GUILLAUME NORMAND<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Vice-Rector of Notre Dame de Paris<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>It's a beautiful symbol. <\/em><em>Especially since diocesan choirs mobilize very faithful people<\/em><em> [\u2026] <\/em><em>I also hope that this initiative will have a ripple effect after the Mass, and will help support or revitalize the activity of diocesan choirs.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Pope's visit to France will involve 3000 priests, 17000 volunteers, 2500 accredited journalists, 15000 police and military personnel, and 6500 people who will distribute communion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Pope's visit has a budget of 27 million euros financed mostly by gifts and donations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maryana Garcia About 1 million people are expected to attend events across Paris this weekend during Pope Leo XIV's visit to the city. Archbishop Laurent Ulrich has spoken of his enthusiasm to welcome the pontiff. ARCHBISHOP LAURENT ULRICH Diocese of Paris I want to reiterate my joy at this trip, for our diocese and for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":94378,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ZvZVfnCaqUk","video_descarga":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpapaparigiprepeng.mp4","international_url":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpapaparigiprepint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94377"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94377"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94382,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94377\/revisions\/94382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}